World All-Fours tournament to be held in Brooklyn
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Shai Hope
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The top-order batsman, who now
has a career-best points of 808 and
has moved up to the No. 4 in the batting
rankings. He accumulated 470
runs at 94.00, recording two fifties
and two centuries, one of which was a
match-winning 170 against the hosts
in Dublin.
Captain Jason Holder said the
quality of Hope’s batting could see
become the country’s greatest ODI
cricketer of all time.
Hope is now the highest ranked
batsman in the West Indies World
Cup squad. The next highest ranked
Windies batsman in ODI cricket is
22-year-old left-hander is Shimron
Hetmeyer, who is ranked 29th in the
world.
West Indies’ Hayley Matthews
plays a shot against Australia during
the fi nal of the ICC Women’s
World Twenty20 2016 cricket
tournament at Eden Gardens in
Kolkata, India, Sunday, April 3,
2016. Associated Press / Bikas Das, File
T20 champs
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with Chedean Nation who struck an
unbeaten 63 off 46 balls.
The total was just short of the
West Indies Women’s all-time best of
191 recorded nine years ago against
the Netherlands in Potchefstroom.
Ireland in their reply, the Irish
never challenged the difficult target
and finished on 116 for three off their
20 overs, despite an unbeaten 56
from opener Mary Waldron.
Barbados football showdown looms
BDF’s Jelani Keizer protects the ball from Ellerton’s Roshon Gittens in last Sunday’s semi-fi nal encounter.
Photo by George Alleyne
By George Alleyne
Having already established themselves
as the island’s undisputed top
football team for 2019 the Barbados
Defence Force boys are now set for
another clash with Weymouth Wales,
who they defeated to take the Premier
League title just over a week
ago.
The soldiers bested Weymouth
with a 5 – 4 goal aggregate at the
end of the final game in a threematch
playoff for the Premier League
title two Sundays ago, but results in
the Barbados Football Association’s
knockout competition, Champions
Cup, last weekend now pit these two
teams for a clash in the final.
These sides, who are now undoubtedly
Barbados’s best men’s senior
football teams, beat their opponents
in the KO competition semi-final
playoffs Sunday to set the stage for a
rematch — albeit for a different and
lesser title.
The BDF players, who had to settle
for runner-up position in this Champions
Cup competition last year, over
the weekend thrashed Ellerton 7-2.
On that same Sunday evening fixtures
at the Wildey Astroturf, Weymouth
put a 6-2 drubbing in Brittons
Hill.
These results set the scene for a
showdown this coming Sunday when
the Weymouth players will do their
best to show that they are better than
the Premier League what was shown
in the Premier League loss to BDF,
and on the other hand the army boys
will be out to show that they are true
Barbados 2019 champions by doing
the double and taking the Champions
Cup to stand on their display wall
along with the League trophy.
The 2019 World All-Fours tournament
will take place on Saturday, June
22 and Sunday, June 23 at Nazareth
High School auditorium from 10:45 am
with breakfast and opening ceremony
between 7 am and 10:45 am. Nazareth
High school is located at 457 East,
57 Street, Brooklyn, New York with
entrance on East 58 Street.
This tournament is organized by
the All-fours Alliance USA (AFA) USA,
which is one of the largest Caribbean
non-profit organisations based in
Brooklyn New York. According to the
organization’s PRO, Finbar LaCroix,
“We are centered around our all-fours
card league. Our regular league plays
from February to December with a
summer break from July to September.
Our champions are crowned during
our final game in December.”
“We do host an invitational tournament
we call our world tournament.
It is played over two days with teams
visiting from Canada and Trinidad
plus our regular league teams,” said
LaCroix.
West Indies’ Jason Holder.
Associated Press / Ricardo Mazalan